Backlight assembly and an assembling method thereof

ABSTRACT

A backlight assembly, an LCD assembly having the same and an assembly method thereof are disclosed to reduce the assembly time and to improve the efficiency. The backlight assembly comprises: a mold frame having an inner lower surface and side walls normal to the inner lower surface; a reflector plate mounted on the inner lower surface of the mold frame; a light guiding plate disposed on the reflecting plate; a lamp assembly accommodated between one side portion of the light guiding plate and the side wall of the mold frame facing the one side portion of the light guiding plate; a series of diffusion sheets disposed on the light guiding plate; and a pair of fixing frames facing each other, covering an edge of the light guiding plate corresponding to a portion where the lamp assembly is accommodated and the side walls of the mold frame, pressing and fixing the light guiding plate, and being detachably coupled to the mold frame.

The present application is a continuation of the U.S. patent applicationSer. No. 09/886,126 filed Jun. 22, 2001 and issused as U.S. Pat. No.6,502,945.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention

The present invention relates to a back light assembly, and moreparticularly, to a back light assembly rendering elements thereof to beorderly stacked and assembled in a receiving space of the mold frame,thereby enhancing the assembly capability and simultaneously finding afailed element easily during the assembly process. Further, theinvention relates to an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) having a back lightassembly in which elements are orderly stacked and assembled. Stillfurther, the invention relates to an assembly method of these elements.

2. Description of the Related Art

In these days, as semiconductor fabrication technologies are rapidlyadvanced, semiconductor devices having an ultra fine line width, forexample, switching devices such as the thin film transistors are beingdeveloped using such semiconductor fabrication technologies.

Thin film transistors are used in the flat panel display devices such asliquid crystal displays, plasma displays, etc., as well as the memorydevice such as DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) and CPU (CentralProcessing Unit).

Especially, as the semiconductor thin film transistors are applied tothe display devices, the display devices become lighter in weight,smaller in volume and slimmer in thickness compared with theconventional CRT (Cathode Ray tube) displays.

In order to achieve these less voluminous, light, smaller and slimmerdisplays, it is necessary to divide a predetermined sized screen into aplurality of fine pixels matched with its resolution and to drive thedivided fine pixels selectively. Especially, in LCDs, there are requiredvarious important technologies, such as liquid crystal technology usingan electric potential forming unit that allows power to be selectivelysupplied to the fine pixels and an electric field generated by theelectric potential forming unit, liquid crystal driving technology forcontrolling the light transmittance by the liquid crystals, an opticaltechnology for increasing luminance of light passing through the liquidcrystal and providing uniform luminance and assembly technology forassembling various elements related to the aforementioned technologies.

Recently, in addition to optimizing these technologies, there are manyendeavors for decreasing the width and thickness of the LCD panels byimproving the assembly technology such as reducing the number ofassembly elements and the number of assembly processes, etc.

In LCD monitors widely used in desktop computers and notebook computers,an LCD panel assembly and a backlight assembly are respectivelyassembled by separate assembly processes and they are then assembled toeach other. Hereinbelow, their assembly processes are described.

First, a mold frame is furnished to simultaneously fix the backlightassembly and the LCD panel assembly. A series of optical sheets, a lightguiding plate, a lamp assembly, a reflector plate and a bottom chassisare stacked in order in the mold frame.

Then, the LCD panel assembly is mounted on the mold frame. Thereafter,the backlight assembly, the mold frame and the LCD panel assembly arefirmly fixed by the chassis.

However, in the conventional assembly method, where the optical sheetsare assembled before the lamp assembly, the contaminated optical sheetmay be assembled undetected or the lamp assembly may not operate.

Also, the reverse type may not allow the elements inspected during theLCD inspection, and also increases the assembly time and the LCD size.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

It is therefore an object of the present invention to assemble an LCDassembly more efficiently in an order where the elements of the LCDassembly are placed.

It is another object of the present invention to achieve a slim displaymodule by simplifying the structure of the display module.

It is still another object of the present invention to decrease the timespent in the assembly.

To achieve the above objects and advantages, there is provided abacklight assembly comprising: a mold frame having a receiving spacefurnished by an inner lower surface and plural side walls normal to theinner lower surface; a reflector plate mounted on the lower surface ofthe mold frame; a light guiding plate disposed on the reflector plate; alamp assembly accommodated between one side portion of the light guidingplate and the side walls of the mold frame facing with the one sideportion of the light guiding plate; a series of diffusion sheetsdisposed on the light guiding plate; and a pair of fixing frames facingwith each other, covering an edge of the light guiding platecorresponding to an accommodated place where the lamp assembly isaccommodated and the side walls of the mold frame, pressing and fixingthe light guiding plate and being detachably coupled to the mold frame.

Preferably, the lamp assembly comprises: a reflector mold that is firstbent to define an inner space and an outer space and having a constantthickness; a lamp accommodated in the inner space of the bent reflectormold; a lamp holder established at both ends of the reflector mold, forfixing both end portions of the lamp; a reflector sheet attached on asurface of the inner space of the reflector mold; and a lamp wireaccommodating groove formed along a length direction of the reflectormold at a face of the outer space of the reflector mold such that a lampwire for supplying a power to one electrode of the lamp is accommodated.

Preferably, the fixing frame comprises: a body having a constantthickness and which is first bent to define an inner space and an outerspace; a pressing protrusion formed along a length direction of the bodyat a lower face of the inner space of the body and having a selectedheight; and a guide protrusion formed at both ends of an upper face ofthe outer space of the body, for guiding an LCD panel when assemblingthe LCD panel.

Preferably, the body of the fixing frame comprises a plurality ofthrough holes spaced apart by a constant distance and the mold framecomprises a plurality of coupling protrusion formed at the side wall ofthe mold frame, wherein the fixing frame is coupled to the mold frame byhook-coupling the coupling protrusion of the mold frame to the throughholes of the fixing frame.

Preferably, the body comprises a reflector sheet attached at a portionfacing with the lamp in the lower face of the inner space of the body.

Preferably, the lower face of the outer space of the body is in contactwith the lower surface of the mold frame and the mold frame comprises amounting groove having a selected depth and formed at the contactportion of the lower surface of the mold frame.

Preferably, the lower face of the outer space of the reflector moldfaces with the fixing frame and a reflector sheet is attached to thereflector plate facing with the lower face of the inner space of thereflector mold.

Preferably, the series of diffusion sheets comprises a diffusion sheetthat is directly in contact with the light guiding plate and has thelargest area than the remaining diffusion sheet.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provideda liquid crystal display comprising: a backlight assembly including: amold frame having a receiving space furnished by plural side walls; areflector plate mounted on a lower face of the mold frame; a lightguiding plate disposed on the reflecting plate; a lamp assemblyaccommodated between one sided end portion of the light guiding plateand the side walls of the mold frame facing with the one sided endportion of the light guiding plate; a series of diffusion sheetsdisposed on the light guiding plate; and a pair of fixing frames facingwith each other, covering an edge of the light guiding platecorresponding to an accommodated place where the lamp assembly isaccommodated and the side walls of the mold frame, pressing and fixingthe light guiding plate and being detachably coupled to the mold frame;an LCD panel assembly whose edges facing with each other are establishedto be overlapped with end portions of the pair of fixing frames on theend portions of the pair of fixing frames; and a chassis integrallycoupling the LCD panel assembly and the backlight assembly.

According to still another object of the present invention, there isprovided a method for assembling a backlight assembly, comprising stepsof: mounting a reflector plate on a lower surface of a mold frame havinga receiving space therein; mounting a light guiding plate on thereflector plate; mounting at least one sheet of diffusion plate on thelight guiding plate; inserting a stack type lamp assembly into a spacebetween one end portion of the light guiding plate and an inner surfaceof the mold frame; and coupling a fixing frame and the mold frame suchthat the fixing frame covers an outer surface of the mold frame andpresses an upper surface of the light guiding plate.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The above object and other advantages of the present invention willbecome more apparent by describing in detail the preferred embodimentsthereof with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:

FIG. 1 is a disassembled perspective view of a stack type LCD having astack type back light assembly unit in accordance with one preferredembodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a partial sectional perspective view of the stack type lampassembly of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a sectional view taken along the ordinate of the assembled LCDof FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a partial disassembled perspective view of a stack type LCDhaving a stack type back light assembly unit in accordance with, anotherpreferred embodiment of the present invention; and

FIGS. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 are sectional views illustrating anassembly method in accordance with another preferred embodiment of thepresent invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

The present invention now will be described more fully hereinafter withreference to the accompanying drawings, in which preferred embodimentsof the invention are shown. This invention may, however, be embodied inmany different forms and should not be construed as limited to theembodiments set forth herein.

Hereinafter, a liquid crystal display having a stack type assemblystructure and an assembly method thereof according to the presentinvention are described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Now referring to FIG. 1, the LCD 900 of the present invention includes astack type backlight assembly unit 600, a fixing frame 700, an LCD panelassembly 800 and a chassis 850.

The pair of fixing frames 700 are disposed on the stack type backlightassembly unit 600. The LCD panel assembly 800 is disposed on the fixingframe and is coupled to the chassis 850.

The stack type backlight assembly unit 600 includes: a mold frame 100having a receiving space having side walls; a stack type lamp assemblyunit 200 accommodated adjacent to and inside both side walls facing witheach other of the mold frame 100; and a reflector plate 300, a lightguiding plate 400 and a series of diffusion sheets 500 orderly mountedon the lower face of the mold frame 100 between the stack type lampassembly units 200.

In more detail, the mold frame 100 has a box shape in which four sidewalls are formed perpendicular to the lower face of the mold frame 100along four edges of the lower face. The mold frame 100 has a pair ofmounting grooves 110 at lower portions of the receiving space adjacentto the pair of facing side walls to accommodate the stack type lampassembly unit 200 therein. A slot 120 is formed at the remaining twoside walls normal to the previously mentioned two side walls, and itaccommodates a lamp wire 240 to be described below.

FIG. 2 is a partial perspective view of the stack type lamp assemblyunit 200. Referring to FIG. 2, the stack type lamp assembly unit 200includes a reflector mold 210, a lamp holder 220, a lamp 230 and thelamp wire (not shown in FIG. 2).

The reflector mold 210 is made of thin plate first bent to have “L”shape. The lamp 230 is accommodated at an inner space of the bentreflector mold 210 and a reflector sheet 250 having a high lightreflection efficiency is attached on the reflector mold 210 of the innerspace. Also, the lamp holder 220 is established at both ends of thereflector mold 210 to fix the cold cathode lamp 230.

Meanwhile, at the rear surface of the bent reflector mold 210 is formeda wire groove 215 for accommodating the lamp wire extended from a coldelectrode of the cold cathode lamp 230. The wire groove 215 is formedalong the length direction of the reflector mold 210 from one end to theother end. The lamp wire accommodated in the wire groove 215 isextracted from one end of the wire groove 215 and is connected to aconnector together with the lamp wire extended from a hot electrode ofthe cold cathode lamp.

The stack type lamp assembly 200 is mounted on the mounting groove 110of the mold frame 100 such that the outer bottom surface of thereflector mold 210 is in contact with the mounting groove 110 of themold frame 100. The pair of lamps 230 sitting in the reflector mold 210face with each other.

Thus, the use of the L-shaped reflector mold 210 allows the lightguiding plate 400 to be stack-coupled on the reflector mold 210.

According to the aforementioned embodiment of the present invention, thestack type lamp assembly unit 200 is assembled by preferentiallymounting the L-shaped reflector mold 210 on the mounting groove 110 ofthe mold frame 100 and thereafter mounting the reflector plate 300, thelight guiding plate 400 and the series of diffusion sheets in the namedorder on the lower surface of the mold frame 100 between the L-shapedreflection mold 210. As a result, the assembly process is simplified,improving the assembly efficiency.

The diffusion sheets 500 preferably consist of three sheets. Among thethree diffusion sheets, the lowermost diffusion sheet 510 directlycontacting with the light guiding plate 400 has an area slightly largerthan the remaining two diffusion sheets.

FIG. 3 is a partial sectional view taken along the ordinate of theassembled LCD of FIG. 1.

Referring to FIGS. 1 and 3, the reflector plate 300, the stack type lampassembly 200, the light guiding plate 400 and the diffusion sheets 500stacked on the mold frame 100 are limited to the horizontal movement butthey are not limited to the vertical movement, i.e., they are movablealong the vertical direction by external conditions. To restrict thevertical movements of the reflector plate 300, the stack type lampassembly 200, the light guiding plate 400 and the diffusion sheets 500,the pair of frames 700 facing with each other are applied to theassembly of the LCD.

The fixing frame 700 includes a body that is first bent and has areverse shape of the letter “L”. A plurality of, preferably at least twocylindrical grooves 710 having a constant interval are formed at theouter surface of the fixing frame 700 along the length direction of thefixing frame 700. A pressing protrusion 720 for pressing the uppersurface of the light guiding plate 400 is formed at the inner uppersurface of the fixing frame 700 from one end to the other end of thefixing frame 700 along the length direction of the fixing frame 700.Also, a guide protrusion 730 having a shape corresponding to the comerof the LCD is formed at both end portions of the outer upper surface ofthe fixing frame 700.

Thus, the pair of separate fixing frames 700 press the both ends of thelight guiding plate 400 and thereby it becomes possible to fabricate thefixing frame 700 thinner. In other words, when fabricating the fixingframe in a ring shape by an injection molding, it is difficult to changea minimum thickness of the fixing frame 700 due to the distortion of thefixing frame 700 and therefore the minimum thickness of the fixing frame700 is limited to a predetermined value. However, since the presentinvention uses the pair of separate fixing frames 700, although thefixing frames 700 are fabricated thinner, the distortion of the fixingframes is rare. As a result, the fixing frame 700 can be made as thin aspossible, decreasing the weight of the fixing frame 700 by half.

Also, the thinly fabricated fixing frames help to minimize an interval“G” between the LCD panel assembly 800 and the diffusion sheets 500 asshown in FIG. 3, which improves optical characteristics.

The bent side portion of the fixing frame 700 is coupled to the sideportion of the mold frame 100. To this end, coupling protrusions 130having the same number with that of the cylindrical grooves 710 areformed at the side portion of the mold frame 100. The couplingprotrusions 130 of the mold frame 100 are hook-coupled to thecylindrical grooves 710 of the fixing frames 700.

In order to minimize loss of light beams from the lamp 230, it isdesirous to attach a reflector sheet 760 on the inner surface of thefixing frame 700 corresponding to the lamp 230 such that the light beamsgenerated from the lamp 230 are effectively reflected by the reflectorsheet 760 without leaking the light beams and are then incident into thelight guiding plate 400.

Thus, in a state the cylindrical groove 710 of the fixing frame 700 iscoupled to the coupling protrusion 130 of the mold frame 100, the LCDpanel assembly 800 is guided by the guide protrusion 730 to easilyassemble with the fixing frames 700.

As well known, the LCD panel assembly 800 includes an LCD panel having aTFT substrate 810 as the lower substrate, a color filter substrate 820as an upper substrate, and a liquid crystal (not shown) interposedbetween the TFT substrate 810 and the color filter substrate 820. TheTFT substrate includes a plurality of pixel electrodes made in a matrixconfiguration and having as many pixels as three times of theresolution, a plurality of thin film transistors (TFTs) connected torespective pixel electrodes, for selectively switching the pixelelectrodes, gate lines connected to gate electrode of the TFTs and towhich a gate voltage for switching the TFTs is applied, and data linesconnected to source or drain electrode of the TFTs and in which imagedata signals are applied. The LCD panel also includes a driving unit forsupplying a power to the TFTs and at the same time turning on/off theTFTs at a selected timing.

Thus, when the LCD panel assembly 800 having the above describedconstruction is guided by the guide protrusions 730 of the fixing frames700 and is mounted on the fixing frames 700, the chassis 850 having arectangular ring shape is mounted on the LCD panel assembly 800 and iscoupled to the LCD panel assembly 800.

FIG. 4 is a disassembled perspective view of a stack type LCD having astack type back light assembly unit in accordance with another preferredembodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 4, a reflector plate 300 is mounted on the lowersurface of an inner space bounded by four side walls of a mold frame100. A reflector sheet 310 having high reflection efficiency is attachedon both ends of the upper surface of the reflector plate 300. Areflector mold 210 is first bent. However, unlike FIG. 1, the reflectormold 210 does not have the shape of the letter “L” but has a shape ofthe reversed letter “L” A lamp 230 is accommodated into an inner spaceof the fixing frame 210. Also, a lamp holder 220 is established at bothends of the reflector mold 210 to fix the cold cathode lamp 230.

Meanwhile, at the rear surface of the bent reflector mold 210 is formeda wire-groove for accommodating a lamp wire 240 extended from a coldelectrode of the cold cathode lamp 230. The wire groove is formed alongthe length direction of the reflector mold 210 from one end to the otherend. The lamp wire accommodated in the wire groove is extracted from oneend of the wire groove 215 and is connected to a connector together withthe lamp wire extended from a hot electrode of the cold cathode lamp.

In the backlight assembly of FIG. 4, it is noted that the lamp 230 issurrounded by the fixing mold 210 and the reflector sheet 310 except aportion facing with side walls of the light guiding plate 400 and themold frame 100 does not have the mounting groove mentioned in theembodiment of FIG. 1.

FIGS. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 are sectional views illustrating anassembly method of the LCD shown in FIG. 4 in accordance with anotherpreferred embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 5, the mold frame 100 is placed on a die of anassembly table such that its open lower surface is placed upward.Thereafter, the reflector plate 300 having the reflector sheet 310attached on both ends of the upper surface of the reflector plate 300 ismounted on the lower surface of the mold frame 100 as shown in FIG. 6.Here, the reflector sheet 310 is sufficiently thin and has the samewidth and thickness through the entire surface of the reflector sheet310.

Referring to FIG. 7, the light guiding plate 400 is mounted on thereflector plate 300 between the pair of reflector sheets 310. Here, thelight guiding plate 400 has an area smaller than an area of thereflector plate 300. This is because the lamp assembly unit 200 isaccommodated into the space between side surface portions of the lightguiding plate 400 and the side walls of the mold frame 100.

After mounting the light guiding plate 400 on the reflector plate 300,the diffusion sheets are mounted on the light guiding plate 400 as shownin FIG. 8. The diffusion sheets preferably consist of three sheets.Among the three diffusion sheets, the lowermost diffusion sheet 510directly contacting the light guiding plate 400 has an area slightlylarger than the remaining two diffusion sheets.

Referring to FIG. 9, the stack type lamp assembly 200 shown in FIG. 4 isassembled into the space between side surface portions of the lightguiding plate 400 and the side walls of the mold frame 100.

Thus, when the lamp assembly unit 200 is accommodated into the moldframe 100, a pair of separate fixing frames 700 are assembled to coverboth edges of the light guiding plate 400 and the outer surface of theside wall of the mold frame 100. As described above, the fixing frame700 is coupled to the mold frame 100 by hook-coupling the cylindricalgrooves 710 of the fixing frames 700 and the coupling protrusions 110 ofthe mold frame 100.

Here, the pressing protrusion 720 of the fixing frame 700 fixes thereflector mold 210 of the stack type lamp assembly unit 200 as well aspresses the upper surface of the light guiding plate 400.

Referring to FIG. 11, in a state the LCD panel assembly 800 having thepreviously described construction is guided by the guide protrusions 730of the fixing frames 700 and is mounted on the fixing frames 700, thechassis 850 is coupled to the LCD panel assembly 800 and the mold frame100 and the assembly process is completed.

Although the above embodiments have been described with reference toliquid crystal displays comprising the mold frame, the reflector plate,the stack type lamp assembly unit, the diffusion sheet, the LCD panelassembly and the chassis, it is also possible to further establish ametal bottom chassis having a shape corresponding to the lower surfaceof the mold frame on the lower surface of the mold frame, which coolsthe lamp assembly unit generating a large amount of heat.

As described above, the present invention allows all elements of an LCDpanel assembly to be assembled depending on their stacked order, therebyreducing the assembly time and improving the assembly efficiencyremarkably. In addition, it is possible to confirm a failure of allelements during the assembly process, thereby enhancing the productivityof the assembly and the fabrication yield, and decreasing thefabrication cost of LCD products.

This invention has been described above with reference to theaforementioned embodiments. It is evident, however, that manyalternative modifications and variations will be apparent to thosehaving skills in the art in light of the foregoing description.Accordingly, the present invention embraces all such alternativemodifications and variations as fall within the spirit and scope of theappended claims.

What is claimed is:
 1. A backlight assembly, comprising: a mold framehaving a receiving space formed by an inner lower surface and side wallsextended from the inner lower surface; a reflector plate; a lightguiding plate; a lamp assembly; an optical sheet; and a fixing frameattached to the mold frame along one of the side walls thereof andholding an edge of said light guiding plate and the side wall of saidmold frame.
 2. The backlight assembly of claim 1, wherein said fixingframe holds the edge of said light guiding plate and the side wall ofsaid mold frame as being detachably coupled to the mold frame.
 3. Thebacklight assembly of claim 1, wherein said fixing frame is coupled tooutside of the side wall of the mold frame.
 4. The backlight assembly ofclaim 1, wherein said light assembly is located between one end of saidlight guiding plate and the side wall of said mold frame.
 5. Thebacklight assembly of claim 4, wherein said light assembly comprises: areflector mold of a constant thickness that is bent to define an innerspace and an outer space; a lamp accommodated into the inner space ofsaid reflector mold; and a lamp holder at both ends of said reflectormold, for fixing both ends of said lamp.
 6. The backlight assembly ofclaim 5, wherein said reflector mold has a lamp wire groove formed alonga length direction at the outer space of said reflector mold toaccommodate a lamp wire that supplies power to the lamp.
 7. Thebacklight assembly of claim 4, wherein the inner space of said reflectormold is reflective.
 8. The backlight assembly of claim 4, wherein saidreflector mold has a reflector sheet attached on the inner surface. 9.The backlight assembly of claim 1, wherein said fixing frame comprises:a body of constant thickness that is bent to define an inner space andan outer space; a pressing protrusion of a selected height formed alonga length direction of said body at a lower face of the inner space; anda guide protrusion formed at both ends of an upper face of the outerspace that guides an LCD panel.
 10. The backlight assembly of claim 9,wherein said body of said fixing frame further comprises a plurality ofthrough holes spread apart by a constant interval, wherein said moldframe further comprises a plurality of coupling protrusions formed atthe side wall of the mold frame, and wherein said fixing frame iscoupled to said mold frame by hook-coupling the coupling protrusions ofsaid mold frame to the through holes of said fixing frame.
 11. Thebacklight assembly of claim 9, wherein said body is reflective at thelower face of the inner space that faces the lamp.
 12. The backlightassembly of claim 9, wherein the lower face of the outer space of saidbody is in contact with the lower surface of said mold frame, andwherein said mold frame further comprises a mounting groove of aselected depth formed at the contact portion of the lower surface ofsaid mold frame.
 13. A liquid crystal display, comprising: a backlightassembly including: a mold frame having a receiving space formed by aninner lower surface and a side walls extended from the inner lowersurface; a reflector plate; a light guiding plate; a lamp assembly; anoptical sheet; and a fixing frame attached to the mold frame along oneof the side walls thereof and holding an edge of said light guidingplate and the side wall of said mold frame; an LCD panel assembly havingan edge overlapping an end of the fixing frame; and a chassis integrallycoupling said LCD panel assembly and said backlight assembly.
 14. Theliquid crystal display of claim 13, wherein the lamp assembly is an edgelighting type.
 15. The liquid crystal display of claim 13, wherein thelamp assembly is a direct lighting type.
 16. A method for assembling abacklight assembly, comprising steps of: mounting a reflector plate on alower space of a mold frame having a receiving space; mounting anoptical sheet on the light guiding plate; inserting a lamp assembly;coupling a fixing frame with the mold frame such that the fixing framecovers an outer surface of the mold frame and presses an upper surfaceof the light guiding plate.
 17. The method of claim 16, furthercomprising a step of: mounting a light guiding plate on the reflectorplate, wherein the lamp assembly is inserted between one end of thelight guiding plate and an inner surface of the mold frame.
 18. Themethod of claim 17, wherein the fixing frame includes a plurality ofthrough holes and the mold frame includes a plurality of couplingprotrusions, and wherein the fixing frame is coupled to the mold frameby coupling the coupling protrusions of the mold frame to the throughholes of the fixing frame.
 19. The method of claim 16, wherein the lampassembly contains a plurality of lamps with a light guiding plateadjacently located thereto.
 20. The method of claim 19, wherein thefixing frame includes a plurality of through holes and the mold frameincludes a plurality of coupling protrusions, and wherein the fixingframe is coupled to the mold frame by coupling the coupling protrusionsof the mold frame to the through holes of the fixing frame.